Listings in the Discover page and user’s stores are now loaded by IPFS hash as well as IPNS lookup. In most cases this will cause the listing to load very quickly from IPFS. When the IPNS listing loads, if it is different from the IPFS data it will replace it.

When using the OB1 search provider, a category-based experience will be provided as a default. This more closely matches the experience on openbazaar.com. Other providers will use a normal search experience, as we can’t be sure if they would supply the same data in the same format needed for the OB1 design.

When using a search provider that does not provide Tor endpoints, the search calls will use the provider’s non-Tor endpoints instead. This is still secure, as traffic is still routed through Tor. Tor endpoints are used by some search provider’s to get around issues with CDNs like Cloudflare.

The app is now using Electron version 4.1.3.

The block explorers have been updated to more privacy-focused websites.

Bug Fixes

A layout issue with some buttons was corrected.

Conditions on listings were not being shown due to a typo, they are now working.

An issue that caused the default image to sometimes not load in avatars with no data was fixed.

The focus of this release is updating underlying go-ipfs to v0.4.19 and improving IPNS resolution. Notable to this release are the AutoNAT and AutoRelay features (which are disabled by default, but a necessary component for connectivity for mobile and clients which are unreachable via inbound connection (which are typical in NAT scenarios). Additionally, IPNS resolution (the process which converts the peer ID to the most-recently-updated “content root” for that peer) is now improved with the addition of OB1-provided infrastructure.

In addition to this release, the multiwallet API /wallet/spend endpoint now supports a “sweep wallet” behavior that allows the wallet to be emptied without clever math from the user.

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